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I have spanked a child. Wow, that was hard to admit. It was before I fully embraced Attachment Parenting, way back when. I was a new parent, I was intrigued by AP and positive discipline, but I was struggling against the punishing mindset I grew up with. SpankOut Day is Monday, April 30. What will [...]
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I believe that children need discipline. They need to know where the limits are; they need to know boundaries. Some parents prefer forms of punishment; those who raise their children in an attachment-minded way tend toward teaching and guidance. I wonder, though, if we truly ever get away from punishing – perhaps we don’t spank [...]
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From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne In all these examples, which are merely suggestive, it is impossible to lay down an absolute moral recipe, because circumstances so truly alter cases—in all these no mention is made of corporal punishment. This is because corporal punishment is never necessary, never right, but is always [...]
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From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne comes another wonderful treatise- this time pertaining to child discipline. This will be an article series so stay tuned! ———————————————– The child born of perfect parents, brought up perfectly, in a perfect environment, would probably have no faults. Even such a child, however, would be at [...]
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